Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > and leave you with a miss-aligned disk that writes like its full of
> > molsasses. Fdisk complains, gdisk will fix it, but what good does
> > that do you when there is NO WAY AROUND the partitioner in the
> > installer.
>
> Of course there is.
>
> In general, the partitioner can just use your existing partitions. If
> for some reason, you've partitioned your existing partitions in a way
> that it is unable to figure out, then you can just
>
> 1) use expert mode
>
> 2) skip the partitioner entirely
>
> 3) mount your partitions directly on /target,
>
> 4) continue with the install selecting the remaining steps manually in
> order without rerunning the partitioner.
>
> If you're still having trouble, the actual logs will be more helpful.
> See
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.html.en#di-miscel
> laneous
That is a decent writeup. Whats chances there is a printable .pdf of it
someplace?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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